GRE Word List
ROUSING
giving rise to excitement : stirring
The meaning of the word rousing is giving rise to excitement : stirring.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |